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Pranav C.

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 4 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 8+ years in AI/ML-powered AdTech and Search platforms.
  • Led product innovation driving measurable growth.
  • Scaled monetization brands GSV growth by 12%+.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager specializing in AI/ML-driven AdTech and Search platforms.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementSearch RankingMonetizationAds MonetisationAds PersonalisationProject ManagementQuantitative AnalysisOperations ManagementBusiness StrategyEntrepreneurship

Other Skills

AI ML Search RankingProduct DiscoveryRecommendationPersonalisationCross-functional LeadershipMarketplace OptimizationDeep LearningReal-time RankingCohorted LTR RankingMonetization StrategyProduct InnovationAuctionMarketplaceAttributionCalibration

About

Product Manager with 8+ years of experience building and scaling AI/ML-powered AdTech and Search platforms across auction systems, ranking, recommendation, and personalization at Zepto and ShareChat. Specializes in search ranking , auction design, bidding strategy, multi-objective optimization, and real-time ML pipelines that drive measurable growth in engagement and monetization. End-to-end product ownership from prediction model design and data engineering to marketplace optimization and advertiser-facing controls. Former founder and IIT Kharagpur alumnus with a track record of zero-to-one AI product building in high-velocity environments. Delivered ₹xx GPPO and yy% + OPD uplift through ML-powered search ranking & personalization Scaled monetization brands GSV growth by 12% + through DL ranking, reco, and swap logic innovation IIT Kharagpur alum, ex-founder, Tier 1 quant researcher Excited about all things in Search, Relevance, Personalisation, and Growth.

Experience

13 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Zepto

Group Product Manager , Search & Recommendations

Apr 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • AI ML Search Ranking , Product Discovery , Recommendation and Personalisation
  • Led product innovation charter for product discovery, navigation, and category activation across Zepto’s quick commerce platform — driving higher ARPU, OPD, and monetization through intelligent ranking and personalization. Owned end-to-end strategy and execution for Search, Recommendations, and Category Growth & Activation, designing seamless, high-speed discovery experiences tailored to Q-commerce user behaviors. Managed and scaled a cross-functional team of Senior PMs, PMs, Product Analysts, and DS/Engg partners to build a platform-first discovery stack with measurable business impact.
  • Impact:
  • 6%+ OPD uplift , ₹5+ GPPO uplift, ₹12+ AOV uplift ,12%+ monetized GSV growth.
  • Led n=1 personalised and cohorted real time DL model based Conversion ranking
  • Led personalised & in-session based real time recommendation engine buildout.
  • Piloted Swap & Save (₹3 Cr monet bookings, patent filed).
  • Cross-functional leadership across PM, DS, Engg, Monetization.
  • Products Owned :
  • Search Personalised Ranking ( n = 1 DL model real time ranking , cohorted LTR ranking)
  • Personalised Recommendations ( in session recommendations , Swap n Save , Add n Save )
  • Autosuggestions ( Pairwise DL model based real time ranking )
  • Explore / Exploit ranking for fresh products
  • Multi Objective ranking - AOV , NOV, GSV , Net Margin , Monet , Deal , Conversion forward ranking
  • Category Growth
  • Payment Fraud ( 80 % reduction )
  • Whole page optimisation
  • Search relevance & retrieval
AI ML Search RankingProduct DiscoveryRecommendationPersonalisationCross-functional LeadershipMarketplace Optimization+2

Sharechat

6 roles

Group Product Manager

Promoted

Sep 2023Apr 2024 · 7 mos

  • Auction , Marketplace , Attribution , Calibration , Bidding strategy , Business Models , Budget aware AB experimentation , Ads ranking, Ads relevance
AuctionMarketplaceAttributionCalibrationBidding StrategyProduct Management+1

Senior Product Manager, Ads Personalisation

Oct 2021Sep 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Ads ranking ,ads relevance,Ads Personalisation , Ads UI UX , Sharechat Ad Network , Data Management Platform ( DMP ) , Auction , Bidding strategy ( Lowest Cost bidding , Target Cost per action ) , GAM / FAN Network Ads , MMP Attribution , Retargeting Ads ,Click Prediction , Install Prediction , Transaction prediction models , Bidder , Budget Pacing
Ads RankingAds RelevanceAds PersonalisationData Management PlatformBidding Strategy

Product Manager, Ads Personalisation

Jul 2020Oct 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

Zonal Manager - West India

Sep 2019Jul 2020 · 10 mos

Strategy Lead - Maharashtra

Feb 2019Sep 2019 · 7 mos

Product Manager , Marathi

Mar 2018Feb 2019 · 11 mos

  • Acquisition & Growth:
  • Scaled up Marathi community from 300k to 3M+ Monthly Active Users.(FB Ads/SEO)
  • Achieved CPI from FB Ads as low as INR 5 per user
  • Tracked retention vs CPI metrics from marketing campaigns and channels.
  • Retention:
  • Designed User Onboarding Journey improved key funnels increasing W1 retention by 10%+
  • Improved Notification CTR by 40%
  • Product:
  • Improved retention & engagement metrics through optimisation of positioning and number of
  • content types by A/B tests and Supply/Demand mapping
  • First Feed experiments for New user retention resulting in 5% growth
  • Geo Location based content/experience experiments.
  • Built repository of Emoji/Smiley preferences of target audience
  • Content & Community:
  • Introduced new content types driving Female user growth by 100% & built internal Influencer network
  • Sustained efforts to drive video posts creation growth by 50%
  • Run campaigns for creation & new product feature adoption
  • Run internal Creator grooming program and held User meet ups
  • Project Management :
  • IPL 2018 : Was IPL 2018 Lead across all languages, ran across platform Sharechat IPL 2018 Quiz Contest with more than 250k+ user participation across the season.
  • Conceptualised Sharechat IPL Quiz Contest from scratch and successfully ran it across 10 languages on the platform, coordinating with team of 25+.
  • Dashboards :
  • Prepared dashboards on Metabase to track performance of team and track key metrics
Acquisition & GrowthUser Onboarding JourneyContent & Community ManagementProduct Management

Worldquant llc

2 roles

Quantitative Research Consultant

Aug 2016Aug 2019 · 3 yrs

  • AIR 1 among 500 trainees in WorldQuant Summer Training Program 2016; selected to work as a part time Research Consultant
  • Mastered Websim – a market simulation tool, for developing investment models; developed over 2400 investment strategies
  • for US and Europe Standard Equity Universes using principles of technical indicators, volatility measures and price-volume data
  • Assigned Tier 1 contract, the highest possible for consultants worldwide based on actual usage of strategies in real-life trading
  • Chosen among co-consultants to conduct webinars with 200 attendees to train new consultants for exemplary performance

Summer Trainee

Jun 2016Jul 2016 · 1 mo

  • Working on Websim, a financial web-based simulator for backtesting trading ideas. Developing excellent/good long-short equity alphas/python scripts through critical thinking and extensive reading of financial literature and journals.
  • The alphas are of sharpe more than 4, low turnover of around 40% and returns above 20% to achieve an increasing cumulative positive PnL with lesser deviations.
  • Gold level award for high performance alpha strategies.
  • Conceptualized Alphas (Quantitative trading strategies) in mathematical expressions, back tested ideas on Websim platform.
  • Researched and Implemented Mean-Reversion, Behavioral Exploitative, Technical and Fundamental Alphas.
  • Simulated over 4000 Alphas and Submitted over 2100 Alphas that qualified for out sample tests, extracting profits from market inefficiencies.
  • Developed Statistical Arbitrage models for Portfolio Managers to create investment portfolios with high-profit margins & low turnovers.
Investment ModelsMarket SimulationQuantitative ResearchQuantitative Analysis

To be healthy foods pvt ltd

Operations Coordinator

Nov 2015Jan 2016 · 2 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Production: Redefined the floor plan of plant, to reduce inventory by 20% & increase throughput by 30% using lean supply chain
  • Order management panel(OMP): Automated orders by connecting POS system to OMP, reduced order processing time to 50 %
  • Data Analysis: Reduced operating costs by 20% using OMP data for improved inventory forecasting and order management
  • Quality: Adjudged as “Best Cold Press Juice “by NDTV Food as a result of continued product innovation plans and staff training
BacktestingQuantitative Trading Strategies

Tinyowl

Manager - Expansion & New Initiatives

Aug 2015Oct 2015 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Expansion: Formulated a framework for lean restaurant sign up, which reduced supply on boarding time by 67% for tier 2 cities
  • Product: Strategized to increase retention by 20% with trigger contexts to improve engagement, reduced user drops by 30%
  • Marketing: Proposed methods for acquisition by referral marketing to increase app virality by 50% and reducing CAC by 70%
  • Launch: Hired Sales Executives, Area Managers & prepared budget, marketing, key value proposition Launch plan for Lucknow
Lean Supply ChainData AnalysisQuality ManagementOperations Management

Pravega ,iisc bangalore

Outreach Associate

Feb 2013Jan 2014 · 11 mos

  • The Science ,Technical Cultural Under Graduate Level Festival of Indian Institute of Science( IISc ) Bangalore.
  • The Indian Institute of Science is India's premier research institution. Founded in 1909 by J.N. Tata, it is home to over forty departments, 3,500 students and 500 faculty members, all devoted to cutting edge research in science and technology. IISc regularly features as India's top institute in both global and national rankings.

Web and coding forum, iit kharagpur

Manager

Jan 2013May 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Kharagpur Area, India

  • Platform to flourish the developer quotient on the campus.
LeadershipMarket ResearchOperations ManagementEntrepreneurship

Tapex.in

Founder

Aug 2012Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · IIT Kharagpur

  • Leadership: Founded TapEx at IIT Kharagpur Campus, profitably ran it for 10 months, led a team of 3 Managers & 14 other staff
  • Operations: Gross Sale of INR 25 lakhs from 15000 deliveries using Hub & Spoke supply chain to keep fulfillment under 38 mins
  • Market Research: Conducted survey with 950 responses from campus, to gauge consumer preferences and set performance bar
  • Marketing: Using unique Growth Hacking techniques on digital media boosted sales by 30% across 20 hostels reaching 15k users
  • Product Management: Designed website frontend focusing on UI / UX, reduced bounce rate by 40% & order placing TAT by 60%
  • Funding: Initially bootstrapped, later shortlisted for MSME Government funding grant
Expansion StrategyMarketingProduct ManagementBusiness Strategy

Entrepreneurship cell, iit kharagpur

2 roles

Associate Manager

Promoted

Jul 2012Nov 2012 · 4 mos

  • Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur is a student run not for profit organization which aims at promoting entrepreneurship among younger generations through various events and competitions. It actively incubates startup ideas by linking the right entrepreneurs with right investors and mentors which in turn instigates the start-up culture among the college students.
  • I am responsible for Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive(one of the E-Cell flagship event), Public Relations and other various activities of E-Cell, IIT Kharagpur, one of the most active student run entrepreneurship promoting bodies in the world. My work involves devising and implementing techniques and coordinating a team of 30 people to successfully build associations, organize events throughout the year on National Scale and develop relations with major corporate and business sectors in India for activities of the organization.
  • Besides this, work includes successful organization of various B-Plan competitions, Start-up Networking, Sponsorship Marketing, Online and Offline Marketing and Publicity, Media Publicity and working with a 20 member team that is heading the activities for the current academic year to successfully conduct its flagship events: EAD (Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive) .

Associate Member

Jan 2012Jul 2012 · 6 mos

  • Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur is a student run not for profit organization which aims at promoting entrepreneurship among younger generations through various events and competitions. It actively incubates startup ideas by linking the right entrepreneurs with right investors and mentors which in turn instigates the start-up culture among the college students.
Public RelationsEvent ManagementEntrepreneurship

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)

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